EP0959549A1 - Moteur électrique à aimants ermanents sans balais - Google Patents

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EP0959549A1
EP0959549A1 EP98109254A EP98109254A EP0959549A1 EP 0959549 A1 EP0959549 A1 EP 0959549A1 EP 98109254 A EP98109254 A EP 98109254A EP 98109254 A EP98109254 A EP 98109254A EP 0959549 A1 EP0959549 A1 EP 0959549A1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
    • H02K1/00—Details of the magnetic circuit
    • H02K1/06—Details of the magnetic circuit characterised by the shape, form or construction
    • H02K1/22—Rotating parts of the magnetic circuit
    • H02K1/27—Rotor cores with permanent magnets
    • H02K1/2706—Inner rotors
    • H02K1/272—Inner rotors the magnetisation axis of the magnets being perpendicular to the rotor axis
    • H02K1/274—Inner rotors the magnetisation axis of the magnets being perpendicular to the rotor axis the rotor consisting of two or more circumferentially positioned magnets
    • H02K1/2753—Inner rotors the magnetisation axis of the magnets being perpendicular to the rotor axis the rotor consisting of two or more circumferentially positioned magnets the rotor consisting of magnets or groups of magnets arranged with alternating polarity
    • H02K1/278—Surface mounted magnets; Inset magnets
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
    • H02K1/00—Details of the magnetic circuit
    • H02K1/06—Details of the magnetic circuit characterised by the shape, form or construction
    • H02K1/12—Stationary parts of the magnetic circuit
    • H02K1/14—Stator cores with salient poles
    • H02K1/146—Stator cores with salient poles consisting of a generally annular yoke with salient poles
    • H02K1/148—Sectional cores
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
    • H02K29/00—Motors or generators having non-mechanical commutating devices, e.g. discharge tubes or semiconductor devices
    • H02K29/03—Motors or generators having non-mechanical commutating devices, e.g. discharge tubes or semiconductor devices with a magnetic circuit specially adapted for avoiding torque ripples or self-starting problems
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
    • H02K41/00—Propulsion systems in which a rigid body is moved along a path due to dynamo-electric interaction between the body and a magnetic field travelling along the path
    • H02K41/02—Linear motors; Sectional motors
    • H02K41/03—Synchronous motors; Motors moving step by step; Reluctance motors
    • H02K41/031—Synchronous motors; Motors moving step by step; Reluctance motors of the permanent magnet type
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
    • H02K1/00—Details of the magnetic circuit
    • H02K1/06—Details of the magnetic circuit characterised by the shape, form or construction
    • H02K1/12—Stationary parts of the magnetic circuit
    • H02K1/18—Means for mounting or fastening magnetic stationary parts on to, or to, the stator structures
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
    • H02K3/00—Details of windings
    • H02K3/04—Windings characterised by the conductor shape, form or construction, e.g. with bar conductors
    • H02K3/18—Windings for salient poles

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  • the present invention relates to brushless permanent magnet electric motors, both linear and curved (arc) electric motors.
  • Electronically commutated (brushless), permanent magnet motors are commonly used in general automation, robotics, handling and traction applications, because of their excellent torque/mass and power/mass ratio and controllability.
  • Linear electric motors have existed for at least a century. They are known in all the motor technologies which are familiar in the rotary form, i.e. DC, induction, reluctance etc. However, their diffusion is presently limited because they are perceived as expensive and limited in performance. In fact, all electric motors, rotary or linear, are intrinsically limited in the amount of force developed per unit of airgap surface. This limit stems from the density saturation field of ferromagnetic materials and the conductivity of copper.
  • Standard motors achieve high power density by running at high speed; for this reason, all direct drives need an active volume which is larger, at the same power level, than that required for a motor which is geared down by a transmission.
  • a further limitation stems from the fact that, in any linear motor, a linear bearing or support system is needed to overcome the magnetic attraction between the motor stationary and moving part. This is simply and economically done in a rotary motor, in which the symmetry nullifies the magnetic attraction, but is expensive and generally useless in a linear motor, in which the preferred solution is to let the motor ride on the support of the actuated machine.
  • a linear motor cannot be viewed or supplied as a stand-alone, standardized unit, but is generally an open device which needs to be integrated into a structure.
  • the lack of standardization increases the production cost as the cost of tooling is spread on a low volume of parts.
  • a standard or conventional permanent magnet, electronically switched linear motor consist of a stator and a rotor having the following characteristics.
  • the stator or section carrying the windings is made of a stack of laminations, and displays a number of slots, in analogy to a standard rotary motor.
  • the slots are semiclosed, to limit magnetic detente (cogging) force; a multi phase, (generally three phase) winding is placed in the coils.
  • cogging magnetic detente
  • the stator is often skewed with respect to the normal of the motion axis. Because of the limited production, no automatic winding equipment is currently available for linear motor application.
  • the rotor is a steel structure often divided in sections.
  • the structure is as long as the required stroke of the motor plus the length of the stator, and it carries a set of permanent magnets which are generally glued manually on a steel baseplate. This operation is critical and labour intensive but the brittleness of rare earth magnets and the small airgap size left no other option so far to linear motor manufacturers.
  • linear motors are produced in small lots, with limited product automation, and new applications requiring different sizes, face high non recurrent tooling costs.
  • a still further object of the invention is to develope a novel linear motor structure, in which the rotor can be assembled automatically without bonding or glueing.
  • the novel motor structure summarized in Fig.1 consists of a stator 1, which is made of ferromagnetic material and carries a number of windings 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and a rotor 8, which is also made of one or several plates of a ferromagnetic material 9, suitably joined to form the required travel length, carrying a set of alternating polarity permanent magnets 10, 11, arranged at evenly spaced intervals, defined as pole pitch.
  • the stator is mounted on a base plate 12.
  • the pitch of the slots in the stators is normally much shorter than the pole pitch in order to distribute several windings in a pole pitch so as to obtain a multipolar winding.
  • the pitch of the slots in the stators is similar to the pole pitch, either slightly longer or slightly shorter, and each stator tooth 13 is surrounded by a single, independent winding.
  • each tooth winding can be regarded as an individual single phase motor.
  • each tooth is shorter than a pole pitch by a 1/6th of the pole pitch, i.e. 30 electrical degrees.
  • six individual single phase motors exist with phase shifths of 0, 30 + 180, 60 + 360, 90 + 540, 120 + 720, 150 + 800 electrical degrees, respectively.
  • a three phase motor can thus be obtained by connecting in series the two ends of coils 2,3 to form phase U; coils 8,9 to form phase W, and finally the reverse is done with coils 9,10 to form phase Z.
  • the stator according to the present invention is based on a single tooth lamination such as the one generally depicted in Fig.2.
  • Such tooth lamination is made of a grain oriented material, thus achieving higher saturation flux density than normal motors, with the direction of preferred flux as shown by the arrow, and comprises a parallel tooth proper 13, which will carry the winding, an expanded head 14 which is used to minimize cogging and to reduce the magnet flux path reluctance, and a root 15 which carries a set of parallel dovetails on either side.
  • the stator is stamped with a stacking (i.e. interlocking) tool or is later stacked, possibly on a steel bar (not shown) bearing positioning threaded holes 16.
  • stator lamination stacked into an individual tooth, is wound on a standard coil winding machine, thus enabling both automated manufacturing with no special equipment and the realization of an ordered, layered winding, which results in a copper density about 80% greater than that of the standard bundled winding, and in a correspondingly higher specific thrust.
  • the individual teeth When the individual teeth are wound, they are stacked on a baseplate 12 (see Fig. 1) so that the dovetails fit into each other creating a magnetic field return path between them.
  • the dovetails are deep enough that the magnetic flux can be carried in full by the horizontal segments of the dovetails, so that even if the dovetail is not completely fitted the flux can pass unhindered.
  • This makes it possible to stack the wound teeth not only along a line but also in a curve, or arc, lying in the plane perpendicular to that of the drawing in Fig. 1, thus realizing large diameter arc motors with a single, inexpensive tool.
  • the first three objects of the invention i.e.automated winding on standard equipment, simple tool which can be used on many sizes and shapes, and higher thrust density (through a higher copper density and the use of crystal oriented material) are achieved.
  • stator teeth are wound and coupled in twin sets, which are then spaced apart by varying multiples of the reverse of the number of teeth n, in the given example by multiples of 1/12th of the polar pitch.
  • a full motor is divided in six individual motors, each having a cogging thrust with periodicity equal to the pole pitch and phase according to the positioning of the set on the horizontal axis.
  • the harmonics of the cogging thrust up to the order n/2-1 can be harmonically eliminated without any need of skewing either stator or rotor.
  • the spaces must be appropriate on the airgap, but are irrelevant elsewhere, so that the teeth can be asymmetrized to increase the coil filling factor.
  • the asymmetrical teeth carry a single dovetail; in fact, the grouping of teeth in sets of 2 with 1/12 of pole pitch phase shift results in most of the magnet flux passing between the teeth of the set.
  • the maximum field which escapes the set, and which needs to cross the mounting plate, is 2*sin( ⁇ /(12*2)) i.e. 25% of the peak magnet flux.
  • cogging harmonic elimination has been described through grouping in sets of 2, other grouping strategies are possible as will be evident to the skilled in the art.
  • an object of the invention is the industrial realization of a low cost rotor structure without bonding, which is now described with reference to Fig.s 4 and 5.
  • the indefinitely long rotor structure is made up of a set of equal steel plates 9, or modules, which are as long as an even number of poles, e.g. 20 poles each.
  • the plates are made of cold rolled steel cut in parallelepipeds.
  • a set of cylindrical bumps 17 are cold formed with a NC notching machine, with the same pitch as that of the magnets 18, 19, 20.
  • fixing holes 21 are punched through the plate, as well as some more holes, positioned at the sides of the magnet race, which will be used for locking the magnets in place.
  • the magnetized magnets are placed on the plate and self lock in place due to their reciprocal magnetic attraction, their exact positioning being ensured by the bumps 17.
  • Fig. 6 The realization of a novel rotary motor with increased torque density and lower manufacturing cost, is described with reference to Fig. 6, in which the dovetailed, individual teeth 13 are made with a circular, instead of linear, base 25 and top 26. Additionally, the tooth expansion 14 is also shaped so as to dovetail at each side with the other teeth, although such feature is very small, in the order of 0.5 mm, to limit magnetic leakage.
  • the motor is manufactured piecewise as described in the first embodiment, and then assembled into a cylinder. The assembly is turned into a solid, stiff part by inserting it into a frame 27, e.g. by heating the frame, so that the frame applies a uniform inward pressure on the structure thus loading the dovetails on the teeth expansions 14.
  • the play of traction on the frame and compression at the teeth heads results in much higher stiffness than that of a conventional motor, in which all teeth are free at the tips and flex with the magnetic flux, and therefore provides for quieter operation.
  • This embodiments furthermore allows to realize a motor with crystal oriented material in which the preferred orientation is radial. This feature, together with the higher winding density due to the layered winding, results in a considerably higher torque than normally achievable.
  • Another advantage of the motor according to the invention resides in the limited waste of magnetic material in punching the teeth, when compared with the large amount of material wasted punching complete stator disks.
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